Categories: Sides
Ingredients
- Onion Rings:
- (3-4 cups vegetable oil in a medium pot)
- 1 large Vidalia onion (try to pick one that is long, not wide)
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 Tbsp bacon drippings
- 3 crispy bacon strips, finely minced
- 1 heaping cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- Salt
- Bacon Ranch Dipping Sauce:
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp mayo
- 2 garlic cloves, pressed
- 1 Tbsp bacon drippings
- 2 bacon strips, finely minced
- 1 Tbsp minced fresh dill weed
- 1 Tbsp minced fresh parsley
- Salt and fresh cracked black pepper
Directions
- Preheat oil in a pot, over medium heat.
- Peel and slice whole onion to create rings. Peel off the little, clear membrane that is in between the onion rings.
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk milk, bacon drippings, flour, baking powder, paprika and salt together until smooth.
- Crumble crispy bacon strips and then mince them as finely as possible with a knife. Add minced bacon bits into the batter and mix until evenly incorporated.
- Dip a few onion rings into the batter, covering it completely, and gently add them to the heated oil, once at a time. Cook onion rings in batches until deep golden. You will want to cook over medium heat that way batter doesn’t get dark too fast, leaving you with a raw onion inside. Cooking it on medium heat for a longer period of time will cook the onion inside.
- For dipping sauce: whisk all ingredients together in a small bowl, until all incorporated. Make sure to use the same method for mincing bacon as you did for onion rings.